{"id":92,"date":"2012-09-08T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eduetc.com\/edu\/?p=92"},"modified":"2013-09-04T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T14:46:51","slug":"gate-2013-syllabus-for-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduetc.com\/edu\/gate-2013-syllabus-for-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"GATE 2013 Syllabus for Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GATE 2013 Syllabus for Chemistry<\/p>\n<p>download\u00a0GATE 2013 Syllabus for Chemistry<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Structure:<\/strong>\u00a0Quantum theory: principles and techniques;\u00a0applications\u00a0to a particle in a box, harmonic oscillator, rigid rotor and hydrogen atom;\u00a0valence\u00a0bond and\u00a0molecular orbital\u00a0theories, Huckel approximation; approximate techniques: variation and perturbation; symmetry, point groups; rotational, vibrational, electronic, NMR, and ESR spectroscopy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Equilibrium:<\/strong>\u00a0Kinetic theory of gases; First law of thermodynamics, heat, energy, and work; second law of thermodynamics and entropy; third law and absolute entropy; free energy; partial molar quantities; ideal and non-ideal solutions; phase transformation: phase rule and phase diagrams \u2013 one, two, and three component systems;\u00a0activity, activity coefficient, fugacity, and fugacity coefficient;\u00a0chemical equilibrium, response of\u00a0chemical equilibrium\u00a0to temperature and pressure; colligative properties; Debye-Huckel theory; thermodynamics of electrochemical cells; standard electrode potentials:\u00a0applications\u00a0\u2013 corrosion and energy conversion; molecular partition function (translational, rotational, vibrational, and electronic).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kinetics:<\/strong>\u00a0Rates of\u00a0chemical reactions, temperature dependence of\u00a0chemical reactions; elementary, consecutive, and parallel reactions; steady state approximation; theories of reaction rates \u2013 collision and transition state theory, relaxation kinetics, kinetics of photochemical reactions and free radical polymerization, homogeneous catalysis, adsorption isotherms and heterogeneous catalysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>INORGANIC CHEMISTRY<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Main group elements<\/strong>: General characteristics, allotropes, structure and\u00a0reactions of\u00a0simple and\u00a0industrially\u00a0important\u00a0compounds: boranes, carboranes, silicones, silicates, boron nitride, borazines and phosphazenes. Hydrides, oxides and oxyacid\u2019s of pnictogens (N, P), chalcogens (S, Se &amp; Te) andhalogens, xenon compounds, pseudo\u00a0halogens\u00a0and interhalogen compounds. Shapes of molecules and hard- soft acid base concept. Structure and Bonding (VBT) of B, Al, Si, N, P, S, Cl compounds. Allotropes of carbon: graphite, diamond, C60. Synthesis and\u00a0reactivity\u00a0of inorganic polymers of Si and P.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Transition Elements:<\/strong>\u00a0General characteristics of d and f\u00a0block\u00a0elements; coordination chemistry: structure and isomerism, stability, theories of metal- ligand bonding (CFT and LFT), mechanisms of substitution and electron transferreactions of\u00a0coordination complexes. Electronic spectra and magnetic properties of transition metal complexes, lanthanides and actinides. Metal carbonyls, metal- metal bonds and metal atom clusters, metallocenes; transition metal complexes with bonds to hydrogen, alkyls, alkenes and arenes; metal carbenes; use of organometallic compounds as\u00a0catalysts\u00a0in organic synthesis. Bioinorganic chemistry of Na, K. Mg, Ca, Fe, Co, Zn, Cu and Mo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Solids:<\/strong>\u00a0Crystal\u00a0systems and\u00a0lattices, miller planes, crystal packing, crystal defects; Bragg\u2019s Law, ionic crystals, band theory, metals and semiconductors, Different structures of AX, AX2, ABX3 compounds, spinels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Instrumental methods of analysis:<\/strong>\u00a0Atomic absorption and emission spectroscopy including ICP-AES, UV- visible spectrophotometry, NMR, mass, Mossbauer spectroscopy (Fe and Sn), ESR spectroscopy, chromatography including GC and HPLC and electro-analytical\u00a0methods\u00a0(Coulometry, cyclic voltammetry, polarography \u2013 amperometry, and ion selective electrodes).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ORGANIC CHEMISTRY<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Stereochemistry:<\/strong>\u00a0Chirality\u00a0of organic molecules with or without chiral centres. Specification of configuration in compounds having one or more stereogenic centres. Enantiotopic and diastereotopic atoms, groups and faces. Stereoselective and stereospecific synthesis. Conformational analysis of acyclic and cyclic compounds. Geometrical isomerism. Configurational and conformational effects onreactivity\u00a0and selectivity\/specificity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reaction mechanism:<\/strong>\u00a0Methods\u00a0of determining reaction mechanisms. Nucleophilic and electrophilic substitutions and additions to multiple bonds. Elimination reactions. Reactive intermediates- carbocations, carbanions, carbenes, nitrenes, arynes, free radicals. Molecular rearrangements involving electron deficient atoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Organic synthesis:<\/strong>\u00a0Synthesis, reactions, mechanisms and selectivity involving the following- alkenes, alkynes, arenes, alcohols, phenols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, halides, nitro compounds and amines. Use of compounds of Mg, Li, Cu, B and Si in organic synthesis. Concepts in multistep synthesis- retrosynthetic analysis, disconnections, synthons, synthetic equivalents,\u00a0reactivityumpolung, selectivity, protection and deprotection of functional groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pericyclic reactions:<\/strong>\u00a0Electrocyclic, cycloaddition and sigmatropic reactions. Orbital correlation, FMO and PMO treatments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Photochemistry:<\/strong>\u00a0Basic principles. Photochemistry of alkenes, carbonyl compounds, and arenes. Photooxidation and photoreduction. Di-p- methane rearrangement, Barton reaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Heterocyclic compounds:<\/strong>\u00a0Structure, preparation, properties and\u00a0reactions of\u00a0furan, pyrrole, thiophene, pyridine, indole and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Biomolecules:<\/strong>\u00a0Structure, properties and\u00a0reactions of\u00a0mono- and di-saccharides, physicochemical properties of amino acids,\u00a0chemical synthesis\u00a0of peptides, structural features of proteins, nucleic acids, steroids, terpenoids, carotenoids, and alkaloids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Spectroscopy:<\/strong>\u00a0Principles and\u00a0applications\u00a0of UV-visible, IR, NMR and Mass spectrometry in the determination of structures of organic molecules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">GATE 2013 Syllabus for Chemistry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GATE 2013 Syllabus for Chemistry download\u00a0GATE 2013 Syllabus for Chemistry PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Structure:\u00a0Quantum theory: principles and techniques;\u00a0applications\u00a0to a particle in a box, harmonic oscillator, rigid rotor and hydrogen atom;\u00a0valence\u00a0bond and\u00a0molecular orbital\u00a0theories, Huckel approximation; approximate techniques: variation and perturbation; symmetry, point groups; rotational, vibrational, electronic, NMR, and ESR spectroscopy. 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